The Old Dog Presents: The Mundane as Art Round 13 ..........Wood Piles!

in mundaneart •  7 years ago 

Yes I know, I'm weird! I love cutting splitting and stacking wood. Mostly though, I LOVE wood piles. In fact I even wrote an article about it well over a year ago.

What Does Your Wood Pile Say About You?

It's for this reason that I've decided to make the theme for round 13 of The Mundane as Art Challenge "Wood Piles"


Here Are Some Sample Photos that I took today, a month ago and last year! Can you say obsession?


Do you find these to be beautiful or is it just me? It also gives me a sense of security becasue there's enough firewood for those cold winter nights!


Here's a Review of The Galleries That You've Assisted in Creating!

 

  1. Art Exhibit of Manhole Covers!
  2. Your Photographs of Streets!
  3. Damaged Asphalt Gallery
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  9. The Mundane as Art: Moss And Lichen 
  10. The Mundane as Art: Round 10 Ice!
  11. The Mundane as Art: Walls!
  12. The Mundane as Art: Handles And Knobs!


Here Are The Rules For The Contest


  • One submission per person
  • If you enter a photo please also up vote this post.
  • You can create a post using the tag mundaneart but the photo must be posted in the comments here as well.
  • Feel free to use processing and editing to create a special look but I also love the natural look!
  • The photo must be your original work. Please don't use photos that you find on the internet!
  • Submissions will no longer be accepted after the post has payed out in 7 days.
  • There will be at least 2o winners winning at least 1 Steem each! Oh ya!


I'm really looking forward to you helping me to create another beautiful  Mundane as Art Gallery!     


What Mundane Object Would You Like to See Featured in Round 14? 


Please let me know as I love to have your input! 


  Until next time,  


@kus-knee (The Old Dog)


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i tuoi temi sono sempre molto stimolanti...ma anche difficili...Questo per me è impossibile!!!!

  ·  7 years ago (edited)

A great talent like you can always find a solution! Think outside of the box!

Did you see this submission:

https://steemit-production-imageproxy-upload.s3.amazonaws.com/DQmXEe36t2NdLLcyKoaQTjrS4Mzx8tLcVBnv86CLJ5ZcJN3

Pretty cool right?

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Oh yah, it's game on!! I'm working on my post!!

Good stuff!

When I read your post immediately I thought if this picture. I love it not only because the wood is piled up on a steep mountain but also because of my dog Perla and how she was posing there.

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Very nice. Thanks for the happy photograph!


Curonian Spit, Lithuania. Lovely place with almost untouched nature. Sandy dunes and pine forest.
But in summer the problem is due sandy land it remains very dry with high possibility of the flame catching pines very quick and hardly stoppable then

Due this fact special services make yearly cutting of the pines and overall cleaning of the forests, as well as keeping clean special anti-flaming sandy lines (some 3-5 mtrs width)

So that was exactly the case, when making a photoshoot there last summer, we stumbled across cleaned area and the woods already cut and prepared in a pile for further transportation to the factory

Enjoy the scenery :)


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Be sure to click on the image to view full screen!


https://steemit.com/mundaneart/@axeman/the-mundane-as-art-round-13-wood-piles

Thanks so much. It's always lovely to get a submission from you!

Always a pleasure :) Was quite an issue this time to find, luckily got one which made prior to starting a photoshoot... and that was one of the best frames btw

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This one is beautiful!

Oh, now, THIS is beautiful! Such a great capture - perfection <3

Now that's what I call thing outside of the box. Great work @psidema!

Thank you. It is a creative idea

Hahaha, it's funny! You are very creative and playful!

Esta foto está genial, la verdad no se habría ocurrido. Te felicito por la creatividad @psidema.

  ·  7 years ago (edited)

You choose very interesting and unusual themes, @kus-knee. Thank you! I want to present the stacked wood for a heavy and long winter in northern Romania, in a mountain village. It's the wood gathered to heat a church.

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wow beautiful dude

Thank you!

Hey @bluemoon, very nice indeed! Such a feeling of security with all of that wood stored up!

Yes, it is a community work, thank you!

Wow! That will give off a lot of warmth!

Yes and no. The church is a big one, not that in the image...this one:

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It is a beautiful church! And yes. I can see why they use a lot of wood!

Wow. That's a huge wood pile @bluemoon. I've never seen anything like that except at a merchants! 😊

The wood is near, the winter is hard and long, these are the reasons.

Great photographs @kusknee! I love this theme and I am in!
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Be sure to click on the image to view full screen!

Oh my @ileana56 you've got me all excited with this photo!

Thank you, @kus-knee! I still remember the day I took this photo, because it was amazing sunset.🙂

love this pic

Thank you!

Such a beautiful sky!

This is a gorgeous sunset. I can't wait for our sky to start making these again.

We've had some wonderful sunsets in recent days. They will definitely be in your area too!

some are boring, some are awesome if you ask me. My favorite is the house that has a wall made of wood, one half dark, one bright...

I'd love to have an entry from you in Bali! That would be very exotic for our virtual gallery!

I Was thinking about it, but I don't think I know any place where they have wood piled...:-(

You can join us on the next round!

Those are great photographs @kusknee! I have a few in mind I could enter although the piles are of a less organised variety! 😁

No problem. I'm also a big fan of minimalistic photography! If its a pile of wood and it looks like art I'm in!

I need to make a note of it or I'll forget! 😂

Oh I wish I could enter more than one! I was quite astonished the first time I saw these neatly cut and precisely stacked wood piles in Europe. This one is in the French Alps near Manigod.

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I've cut and stacked a lot of firewood in my life, but my woodpiles were never works of art like this one.

That is a beauty in and of itself but when you add in the scenery. WOW!

The wood pile was right next to the road. I suspect it may have been the only flat spot on the property to stack it! I simply couldn't just focus on the wood pile and leave out the scenery.

Oo Melinda you live in such amazing place! :)

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That's actually a beautiful photo but it's not a wood pile. Try and enter it on Tree Tuesday or on the Sun theme day!

Okay @kus-knee.
Thank you so much. I like what you're doing. Please, i'll like to know you more and have you as a friend.

Please send me a message on facebook.
This is the link to my facebook account

" facebook.com/kingsley.clement.39 "

Well... people who love to do that are in a great shape :d

Excellent. Here is my entry from the Sugar Shack in Almonte Ontario....

https://steemit.com/mundaneart/@offgridlife/mundane-as-art-wood-piles

Digital painting from original Photo taken with my iPod touch....

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Beautiful. Thanks!

You’re very welcome.

This is great. It really captures the maple syrup flavour

Thanks

Add to the #PILE.

Ooooohhhhh, very nice!

holy moly!
yes we know you're weird
but we love you for being so :D

that's a lot of stock Old Dog!
would last you more than a year
awesome shots I must say!

Yes, lots of wood! Do you have a photo to share?

have much wood in the shed, too
but no photos as lovely as those
perhaps if I find one worth capturing
I shall take them for this

warm regards to you and the bird!

Wow! I never paid attention to ‘wood piles’ , but they’re are beautiful, I have to admit. You always have goid ideas and make so much fun! Have a great day my friend😊

Hey @naturald, thanks for stopping by!

I’ve missed you😊

  ·  7 years ago (edited)

@kus-knee, this is a nice theme and this time I have a photo of a wood pile with the setting sun shining on it.
https://steemit.com/mundaneart/@claudiaz/web-2018-3-1-12-43-14
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Nice one!

thanks @kus-knee

Well done!

Thanks)

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when I come home from university I meet him on the curb, do you like ?

Lovely!

can I add in my post

Sure!

Yes, I DO find those to be lovely wood piles!
We don't cut or stack firewood here, because we are in the south where it is HOT and we only use the heater a few days a year. Hardly worth the effort of installing a woodburner and cutting wood.
BUT I grew up in Ohio, and we had a woodstove. One chore we did plenty of was stacking firewood. I would always groan when I had to do it, but there is definitely a sense of satisfaction at stacking all the pieces in there so they fit together well and look good when you're done.

Edited to add that I just remember that I DID take a picture of some logs we had stacked for a bonfire, and for fun, Ill enter it.
Not sure if it counts as a whole wood pile, but here ya go!
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Thanks for recounting your experience and I'm glad that you've entered a photo.

Hi @kus-knee,
now i'm in in this amazing theme. I shot it today on my hiking round
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Looks like you had a nice hike with a good find!

Thank you, and yes today was a really beautiful day, with a nice photo

Call as always very original)). Can I have a bunch of wooden boxes? We do not have firewood ...

I'm open to new thoughts and ideas. Wood piles is open to some level of interpretation.

These are wooden supports for tomatoes bushes and a branch from an old pear tree. I tried very hard to find firewood!

Original!

Thank you!)))

Wood would bring some interesting shots depending on the texture of the wood, what may be growing on the wood and markings by Woody Wood pecker and other creatures. LOL Thanks @kus-knee

Yes Woody Wood Pecker would add a lot!

I love the 4th photo on the right - and would love to have that look for a table top. I suppose people who use wood for their fires or to heat their homes need to store it in interesting ways rather than a heap.

With some of them I wondered what would happen if they chose the wrong piece?? hehe....would the whole wall come tumbling down like a Jenga puzzle.(like the bottom left photo) 😂

I know what you mean! I hope to get a nice photo from u!

I will do my best. I'm heading out today and I'll be on the lookout.

A wood inducing post!! Ooer... :0D

Hey buddy, a masculine specimen, he-man, master of the universe, gym frequenter like you must be able to swing an axe! When will we have an original boomer photo in one of our galleries!

Those are some impressive wood piles.

I enjoy all aspects of getting firewood: felling trees, sawing them to length, splitting them and stacking them. It might be because I only do these things when we go camping but it's good exercise and find it relaxing.

This past summer we went camping for three weeks and I got most of our firewood felling trees with an axe and cutting them with a bow saw. I didn't get the stacks that you have pictures of but I have before using chainsaw and splitting with an axe.

I'm sure that all,of the hard work left you satisfied!

This stack is my entry
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Our local beaver doesn't have a steemit account, but he did put together a stack of his own ;-)beaver stack.jpg

Very nice entry. Thanks!

Hey @kus-knee, remember I told you we don't have stuff like that in Bali? Well, guess what I stumbled across yesterday (no joke, seriously yesterday)...

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I knew that you'd find something. Now I have the exotic entry that I was hoping for!

hehe, juhuuuuu

Hi @kus-knee ! Glad I found you and your contests on here! Great fun!
For a slightly different angle on the contest I have a pile of my old skateboards for you! =)
Cheers dude!!
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https://steemit.com/mundaneart/@nicolcron/web-2018-3-4-12-44-12

Cool! Original and fun!

  ·  7 years ago (edited)

Hi @kus-knee :) , here is my entry for the contest :
https://steemit.com/mundaneart/@vee2180/the-mundane-art-round-13-jenga-blocks-pile


I walked around the neighbourhood to go on a hunt for this challenge of wood piles , but I soon found out , people stack them in there back garden.

So I started thinking 🤔 and I think my idea is close , wood pile , check , outside view check 😁

I’ve been waiting for you! Nice!

Yes, I was busy looking for wood piles :) Thank you

I know setting up a game would be your last thing to do! :-) You really did not find any woodstacks lol

  ·  7 years ago (edited)

No because, all the houses have fences , I could not go in the peoples gardens to go and shoot there wood piles, and for this intention, I do use games :) lol( thinking literally outside the box )

This the local wood we have in my country is snapped it direct and right now is it fine and good to go? @kus-knee
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Very nice!

I heard from @erikah that @melinda010100 account is hacked! yesterday...

I like those stacks of wood! Great photo!

Ummm wood piles. Owk I think I have a few around here and can take a snap shot or two. Await my entry to this then .

I look forward to it!

This is my entry, it was taken in the Bükk mountains, about 6 weeks ago! It looks like a huge abstract statue, covered by thick snow.

(Full resolution is very spectacular! Right mouse-button and see on new sheet)

With show is really fascinating!👏

Hey thanks. You always have something interesting for my eyes!

what about this entry @kus-knee ??
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That is awesome... very creative! Do you shave these off your own tree?

I did not meet him in the daily market

I love that, that's awesome! I'd love a cinnamon tree!!

Thank you my friend @jayclar30.
hopefully healthy always for you

I don't have one yet but it is on my list of "would like to get". I better not take too long though as they take a while to grow don't they?

really my best friend @jayclar30

Lol, thank you! : )

Is that cinnamon?

yes @kus-knee wood I met in the daily market

I thought it was cinnamon too! 😂

yes friends, it is the cinnamon that is used as a cooking spice.
thanks for the @gillianpearce, hopefully like it

Massive logs!

Hey @kus-knee, thanks for the fun theme! Here's my entry:

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I LIKE it!

I’m happy you like it. :) I found them in a forest in Breda, the Netherlands. Beautiful autumn/fall colors!

Hi @kus-knee,

this is my Wood Pile.. i know it's unusual interpretation but that's funny.

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Lovely. Is that your cat?

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It's not exactly the pile of wood you were talking about, but it might meet your criteria. Wickianish Beach on Vancouver Island is definitely a place were you won't have trouble finding some fire wood.

Let's enjoy this contest everyone. Thanks to @kus-knee for setting this up again

Oooooooh very nice. Vancouver island....I love the place!

Yeah, it was amazing over there. Hope some day I can go back!

A pile little bit disordered...☺
Nice shot! It look a nice place too!

@kus-knee thanks for showing us the art of stacking things

My pleasure @franciscana23

Thanks my friend @kus-knee

Great idea for a contest, too bad only one entry allowed. I'm from a region where wood is the main source of heat during long cold winters. Anyway, this is my entry. I hope you'll like it.

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https://steemit.com/mundaneart/@roxy-cat/a-pile-of-wood

Thanks for your entry!

Brooklyn Wood Pile • Mundane Art
https://steemit.com/mundaneart/@otage/brooklyn-wood-pile-mundane-art
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Thank you for creating the contest @kus-knee!

Interesting.

congratulations for this great hobby dear friend @ kus-knee, I love to stack wood but never happened to take a picture, I will see a little in my albun d efotogarfia if there is something I can share or where I can go to take pictures of firewood
Great dear friend, I loved your pictures
I wish you a prosperous week

Thanks for your support!

The things. You can do with split wood. Great designs for the avid would chucker. 🐓🐓

For sure!

I am not good at photography though is this photo eligible

Thanks!

Oh! New theme! But still I can't enter. Oh my...

Why? R u living in the city? Are there are wood fired pizza ovens where you live?

Yeah i am in the city and no wood fired ovens anywhere. Haha. Should have taken a pic of the campfire some weekend ago if I had known. :D But it's okay. Will join when I can.

Super. I'll look forward to it and artists are much needed and very welcome!

Awww. Thank you. :) I think I'm turning into a scientist though. Hihi.

wow, I had not thought about the way you think about it and the deep work that goes into it @kus-knee

Yes, those piles are works of art in my eyes!

They are some fabulous wood piles!!! It's hot where I live... we don't really do wood piles, so I'll have to have a think on this one ; )

If you don't have something please do catch us on another round!

I'll see what I can do... if I can get creative with it somehow. ; )

an unexpected topic, but I found :))
..photographed during a trip from the car
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The scenery is enchanting!

Thank you @kus-knee, maybe I'm not quite sure what the assignment is. :((

It's a good entry!

Man!!! Those are stunningly beautiful especially the one with the glass house. So much love it. How about considering stones and rocks in the next mudaneart.

Thanks for your ideas and for visiting my page!

Let me show you my firewood :)

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Thanks so much @tanata! It's always great to have an entry from you!

This is the original photograph. But I like to add a little bit of a fairy tale to the pictures)

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Fairy tales are good for the soul!

I am Pricasso most wonderful artist and firstly to answer your question in round 14 Pricasso would like to see anything art related ;)

Pricasso would so loved to have entered this contest but does not possess a camera so what Pricasso did instead is drew his rendition of your most wonderful work, this probably wont qualify as an entry as I did not take any pic, for you however I created the most wonderful artwork in your dedication and honor as well as a blog to you..

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Your blog in your honor here..https://steemit.com/mundaneart/@pricasso/my-ode-to-kus-knee

Yours Always
Pricasso

Thanks for joining in the fun!

I am Pricasso most wonderful artist and I thank you for your love and appreciation of Pricasso amazing art.

Yours Always
Pricasso

Here's mine at @kus-knee. Hope the post hasn't paid out yet. I've added 2 photos but only the top one is for entry. Hope that's OK. 😁

https://steemit.com/nature/@gillianpearce/work-of-art-woodpiles

Good stuff!

Why thank you kind sir! 😊

Hi @kus-knee Here is my entry. Don't laugh.......every Wood Pile starts off small.
https://steemit.com/mundaneart/@trudeehunter/the-mundane-as-art-round-13-wood-piles

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I read this photo as a magical log which supplies an endless stream of wood chips!

The chips were flying everywhere.......hence this random pile at my feet. This wood chopping contest was very fortuitous @kus-knee and I’m just so glad I didn’t have to resort to posting a pile of match sticks which was what I was considering before coming across this event. 😁

Well Old Dog it is always a pleasure to take part and even to try to promote your great contests. I have long been a fan of the Mundane Art series!

I did a post to spread awareness as I usually do, and now the people have spoken and made their choice of which photo to enter. The consensus was to think out of the box and instead of a woodpile per se, they voted rather for a pile of wood ;)

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https://steemit.com/mundaneart/@old-guy-photos/woodpiles-and-new-additions

"woodpile per se, they voted rather for a pile of wood ;)"

I got it!


This is my contribution to your wonderful call.
I wish you a beautiful weekend dear friend @ kus-knee
https://steemit.com/mundaneart/@jlufer/the-mundane-as-art-round-13-special-wood-piles

Thanks my gracious friend!

Very nice!

@kus-knee, How exciting for you! Super!
Here are my pencils:

Very colourful!

Entry by @outerground - a tryptic from Catalunya

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READ THE FULL POST HERE

Thanks a lot!

Ciao! I love your weird contest!🙂
Congrats for your shots, really nice!
Yesterday i made this one!

Cheers!

Beautiful!

Really glad that you like it!🙂

all them piles look so need! I had a small pile of wood, but we bought a birthday present for each other a Landmann smoker, like a small Oklahoma which you will have heard from. And now there is no pile anymore hahaha so I am back on the search. Is it allowed to have more on the picture than just the logs?

This picture is taken with the Greek easter celebration, when the whole village roast their own lamb, and they will eat out on big tables on the street. I actually only have one picture of the wood on there, I was much to much focused on the enormous amount of meat on the roasters, and the way they roast it... Picture taken in my favourite village Fodele Crete.
You can click on it to make it big... (normally :-) )

Thanks for participating!

it is my pleasure, thank you for organizing

I have to go to my father's house!!!! He has wood piles because in the winter they use an old fantastic woodstove ^_^

It's a good chance to visit!

I just love your collection so far, and I'm really looking forward to your gallery. I found a perfect pile of wood for you today, which I incorporated in my post. Hope you'll like it at least half of I do. I wish you a nice rest of the day.

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Great!

Oh my - some wonderful entries here! I only just spotted that you've set another contest, so I'm almost out of time - I will have a look through my portfolio but it's too late (literally - it's dark out!) to shoot something especially now. Fingers crossed that I can find one! Jay <3

Grab a flashlight and start hunting! :)

Heheheh 😁

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Hello Friend @kus-knee! I am always happy to participate in your creative contests! Here's an exciting bunch of wood that I called "Harmony of Chaos":
https://steemit.com/mundaneart/@olga.maslievich/harmony-of-chaos-the-mundane-as-art-round-13-wood-piles

Thanks so much!

Wow,It's a unique wooden pile, which makes a pretty interesting piece of work.I really like this.

this is a pile of wood in my garden. when I was again cleaning the trees in my garden.

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Thanks for joining in the fun!

That is a really cool look for a wooden house. I would definitely live in something like that.

This photo you took is undoubtedly a work of art, the house shows that they did it with a lot of love and patience.



Great theme for a competition. Here is my entry. It is a woodpile i saw some years back somewhere in Oxfordshire, England. It was located outside a pottery, so I guess the owners themselves were artistically inclined.


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Oh, nice! I´m late, but here is my entry. I took this photo in a game reserve and forest very close to my place when we went for a walk with the kids. Since we're living in Germany, everything is well organized and labeled :P

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I made the most beautiful wood
Really very large industry and very beautiful
You are truly an artist
I wish you happiness

what an idea for making a room or house with those wood...brilliant and liked it
thanks for sharing such beautiful stuff

wow... amazing... good photographers see art work in prety much every thing they see.... good luck..

Wow
Really amazing art photography.
I like this your Photography @kus-knee
I appreciate your post.

Cool wood piles, they are awesome

Very nice!

Wonderful art.amazing photography.all the best..

nice photo....have a great journey and thanks for sharing

great work...
thanks for the share

PS: Pricasso would love to showcase his art in malls at some point @dfinney suggested I try get you to feature my most wonderful work in your virtual art rooms for a start?

Yours Always
Pricasso

Great!
I mostly see them in trucks!
I am definetly gonna take part in this!

The woods are beautiful. Hope you're having a blesses evening @kus-knee

This photos are great👍 Special the the little house with the wooden front🤘😊

Wow some real beauties there!

exciting photos, waiting for round 14

Very nice i like it........looks very beautiful......./////

Hmm.... I say you are not the only one then. I have to find more wood pile and come back because I save it somewhere and in my city, it is difficult to come across such. :-)

I think, I must hunting photos like you. :)

Wow,It's a unique wooden pile, which makes a pretty interesting piece of work.I really like this.

First of all i really want to appreciate you because you introduced this amazing place with us and it's literally reflecting as you are living close to nature and in my opinion that's really blessed thing because nature is so beautiful and you can get that beautify effect and healing effect all the time and you said right about the woods, you have enough to stay warm in winter. And add on effect of this poat are, all these wood houses which giving more artistic essence. Thanks for sharing and wishing you an great day. Stay blessed 🙂

Thanks for your support!

Welcome. 🙂

It’s an interesting obsession. There’s a real visual interest in a cleverly stacked woodpile

Excellent shots to be seen today so great :)

Excellent photography....

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Villages all accros the Serbia are getting older. Young generations are dispersed. In the villages, only a handful of old people left waiting for the loving ones to visit them. Everything is waiting for them to return. Houses where they were born, plain yards where they used to play as kids. Some grandpa will even prepare a pile of wood, just in case if the grandson from far away suddenly returns. The whole year has passed, rains and show changed the color of the wood. No one came this autumn, winter, spring. But who knows, maybe tomorrow...

They do look quite great by the way :)

Liked them buddy !

Nice topic selected :)